Alaa Abu Dhein

Alaa Abu Dhein (1982-6 March 2008) was a Palestinian delivery truck driver who perpetrated the Mercaz HaRav massacre of 6 March 2008, killing 8 people and wounding 11. His horrific school shooting was praised by Hamas and 84% of the Palestinian population, and in January 2009 his family's home was demolished by bulldozers.

Biography
Alaa Abu Dhein was born in 1982 in Jerusalem to a Sunni Muslim family, and he was intensely religious. Abu Dhein worked as a delivery truck driver, delivering goods to the local Jewish yeshiva school, and he carried an Israeli identification card that allowed him free movement. After the deaths of 126 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Abu Dhein was radicalized, and he decided to attack the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva at Kiryat Moshe in Jerusalem. At 8:36 PM on 6 March 2008, Abu Dhein began shooting at yeshiva students with an AK-47 assault rifle, killing 8 people and injuring 11. An off-duty IDF captain shot him dead, ending the attack, and Hamas praised Abu Dhein's attack as did 84% of the Palestinian population. Various countries around the world, however, proceeded to condemn the horrific school shooting.